The Cobbler

2014

US

99 min

12A

Directed by: Tom McCarthy

Written by: Tom McCarthy/Paul Sado

Cast: Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Dustin Hoffman

UK release: 22 May 2015

Max (Sandler) is a shoe-mender in New York who discovers a magic sewing machine that enables him to look exactly like the owner of any shoe that he repairs with it. Quaint urban fable with an uneven structure, trying and failing to mesh Sandler's simplistic comic schtick with writer/director McCarthy's sense of moral complication.

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Uneven comic fantasy from Thomas McCarthy, with Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler’s streak of inane comedies has offered audiences a load of cobblers in more than one sense; Sandler’s own name comes from the Hebrew word for 'sandle-maker'. So there’s an odd sense of self-reflection about the actor choosing to play a…